Quote by David Quammen

“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the…

— David Quammen

“Here the vast bed of waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion-heaving, boiling, hissing-gyrating in gigantic and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas are also…

— Linda Marsa

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

— Leana S. Wen

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

— Alan Huffman

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

— Barry Commoner

“the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

— David Quammen

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

— Bill Gates

The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the…

— Peter Lilley

“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive”

— Munia Khan

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum